How to Avoid Minefields When Planning a Global Training Event

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Neal R. Goodman

With the globalization of the worlds economies, the ease of travel, and convergence in many industries, the need for global training events is becoming more common. However, global training events are full of minefields. The hidden dimensions of cross-cultural differenc... More »

The Naked Consultant

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Patrick Lencioni

In the late 1990s, I helped start a management consulting firm called The Table Group. which provides a variety of services to a wide range of clients in just about every respectable industry imaginable. From the beginning we adopted a simple informal approach to servin... More »

Tapping Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences to Stimulate Learning

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Robert W. Lucas

Since the release of Howard Gardners groundbreaking research on multiple intelligences in 1983, he and other researchers have conducted numerous studies on the ability of the human brain to learn in various ways. In his original study, Gardner proposed that people have ... More »

Attributes of a Resilient Organization in U.S. Manufacturing

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Candyce S. Robb

In my job as director of operations for a manufacturing company in central New York, my intention is to help our company become an organization that can effectively and expeditiously incorporate learning into our daily routine. My first challenge is to effectively commu... More »

The Future of Leadership

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Gunjan Aggarwal

A quick look at the literature on leadership theories shows how this field has been under constant change--from trait theories of leadership, where leaders were defined based on their exhibited traits, to contingency and situational leadership theories, where leaders' s... More »